The Substitute Bride's Lethal Secret

I was dragged back to the wealthy Hayes family years after they threw me out like garbage.

The matriarch ordered me to take my sister's place and marry Alaric Montgomery, a ruthless CEO rumored to be on his deathbed.

"If you refuse, I will have your mother's grave dug up by tomorrow morning."

They wanted to use me as a superstitious blood sacrifice so their precious golden child wouldn't have to become a young widow.

My stepmother and sister mocked my cheap clothes and sprayed toxic chemicals in my face, treating me like a disposable pawn meant to die quietly in the Montgomery estate.

But while they were laughing, I hacked into the top-tier medical network and discovered the truth.

Alaric wasn't dying of a terminal illness; he was suffering from a highly lethal neurotoxin.

Worse, I found out the Montgomery family was deeply involved in the orchestrated car crash that murdered my mother, and they were currently hunting down her sacred healing pendant.

My family thinks I am just a weak, illiterate country bumpkin who will cry and accept her miserable fate.

They have no idea that I am actually "The Surgeon," the legendary underground doctor that Alaric is burning billions of dollars to find.

Wearing my faded hoodie and worn combat boots, I calmly stepped into the Montgomery family's fleet of Rolls-Royces.

They think they are sending a helpless lamb to the slaughter.

They don't realize they just invited an apex predator into the lion's den.